Very interesting. I have hiked glaciers in some European countries, including Greenland, and also in New Zealand. I have watched the ice breaking from Vatnajökull, Iceland, and that was indeed breathtaking. But also sad.

Very serious mountains, up in the north. K2, second highest after Everest, is on the Pakistan-Chinese border. Five of the fourteen highest mountains in the world are in Pakistan. I was lucky enough to travel the Karakorum Highway between China and Pakistan back in 2001 and the scenery was just stunning.

Hopefully I’ll get to see it one day too! The Norwegian fjords are beautiful, I had a penfriend from just north of Oslo so visited twice when in school holidays. We lost touch for many years then I found her on FB so I went to visit her about four years ago – it was June and there was torrential rain almost all the time! Still, it was good to catch up and meet her family.

The eastern side is plains. At Denver it starts going up in elevation. It’s called the Mile-High city. The Rocky Mountain range is in Colorado. Some elevations are 14,000 feet above sea level. They are beautiful! The higher elevations are snow-capped most months, the rivers are clear, snow skiing is a big thing.

My husband and I lived in the mountains there for a couple years. It’s an amazing place. Rustic. 😊😊

I think I have a very similar shot! Like Allison, we hiked on Perito Moreno as well as admiring it from this vantage point, and it was a highlight of our time in that part of Patagonia. Thanks for the memory – great pic!

A highlight it was, for sure! So many tourists there, though! I read an article once about someone who took a photo of Perito Moreno on a boat ride (we did a boat ride nearby, too). The person posted a photo online (or maybe in a competition, can’t remember the details) and then found the same photo somewhere else on the web. She called it out for plagiarism but in the end it turned out that the other photo was taken by someone else on the boat, standing right next to her 😊